No one talks about how isolating wedding planning can feel. Especially when you don’t have any sisters and the majority of your bridesmaids now live out of state. Can anyone else relate

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I can definitely relate. I have no sisters, most of the people in the wedding party lived out of state, and my husband's siblings were pretty nasty to us. My wedding was last year, and this year was such a relief, knowing that it's all over and I can breathe. No one helped us.

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Yes! I'm in MS, and all my friends and family are in TX. My fiancé is a truck driver. We share a house with his "family," but they don't know me like my family and friends do, and they try to help/be supportive, but they have their own things going on. The level of excitement and joy you would expect isn't there.

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